This hacker definitely didn't get his facts straight - cold in Texas in July?  Now there's a good one.  It's usually no "cooler" than 80F down here.  

The sad part is that he has likely gotten victims with exactly that story because he tried it again here.

The lesson learned for me is to keep better tabs on forum accounts even if I am not active too much on those forums.  The mere existence of the account does imply a minimum level of responsibility to know what's going on.

Above all, I'm just glad that there are so many seasoned scam busters lurking in the forums here.  The bar is definitely up there for the kinds of stories these clowns have to put out in order to get someone.

Still waiting on the recovery email.

Either way, atp1916 is locked and for the moment safe.

No hacker has control of it.

Theymos got back to me pretty fast as it turned out.  The .3 btc that this hacker was looking to scam people out for will instead go to the forum as a donation.  So, in the end, his actions only will make the forum that much stronger.



Thanks!

The irony is that my sig was totally anti-hacker/troll/thief et all...


...... and i got hijacked due to lackadaisical password handling.


 I learned a lesson on this one.

Yes i did.

Awaiting a response back.

Edit: It's been roughly the better par of a day.  Hoping i didn't goof up the message signing :x

Atp1916 is indeed my account.

I've dropped off most forum activity since mid-2015 after selling off my mining farm around that time.  However, I do not ever intend on selling my account here because i am not leaving the crypto scene any time soon, nor will i merely just auction off the good name this account has built.

I did post my PGP Pub key in a staking thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1159946.msg13541956#msg13541956

I'd be happy to sign a message or two.

This is a Coinbase wallet.

I used their "sign message" ability.

Let's try a one-liner:  (No linebreaks,whitespaces)

HNFsWXXz85Q+dmwaSLPDkpgqv+N3dRO+9FLWUnit8KyjN2vVAOExybus82bg8HBoe5ND1LUXK8ATcF4V2dHBaLw=

Bastard got my account.

I should keep better watch over this space.

Thanks to all for flagging my account - i would hate to have seen this hacker defraud innocents.

Oh, and for the record - I am a software developer down here in the Dallas, Texas area.  I don't need loans



Because i can and will: (Don't include the <'s or >'s)

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This is the real atp1916.  Date is 09/18/2016.

Responding to redsn0w's request to sign '1BMnMhtr5WcvNXvNQ4uXps9ssYFtCVX863'

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G5jKRDhSrftlR1qM7H7R7YvZIvt4qI1dSt0s2zfg/HwRcanzS9uDvlryg4oyPXW4ztOJJD2wJvGAF3AKm8Bvahc=